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British Museum offers to loan stolen Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

British Museum offers to loan stolen Benin Bronzes to Nigeria

Nigeria's government is in talks with the UK to accept the return of rare bronze statues that were stolen by the British more than a century ago.

The British, however, want to loan the stolen work to the African country instead.

Al Jazeera's Barbara Angopa reports.

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